I always struggled with ne meaning of my name. We are German, my aunt found my name in the movie credits (shame I don’t know the movie..) never heard of it before (popular in the US, rare here). It’s Dana (Pronounced Dah-nah), my dad thought it was too short, added an “h”, Dha.na it was.

It does exist as an indian name I now know, but it feels ridiculous to claim these roots as a blond, blue eyed German with no ties to this country on the other end of the world.

Never got the connection to biblical Daniel either.

In old English Dana has the meaning “from Denmark”, at least we don’t live that far from Denmark, so…

I claim the English / American origin, because the movie was probably American. That’s what it’s really about, why did your parents chose the name, where did they hear it.

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Tue, 22 May 2012 02:38:33 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=5230#comment-480839Two months before we conecieved I was watching a holocaust documentry and one of the survivors was talking about her sister who parished in the camps. The name of the sister stuck with me, and I told DH that we should name a daughter that, and we did. It is a rare name, but it fits perfectly with todays trends, didn’t mean for that to happen. LOL
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Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:15:11 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=5230#comment-417951My Middle name Anne means grace which is great grandma’s name and no one in my fam even knew so I was named after both of my greatgrandma’s without realising
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Tue, 08 Nov 2011 02:28:30 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=5230#comment-286502@ Elizabeth Your name happens to be a favorite of mine. It means “God is my Oath”. Love the name because it’s very elegant by itself or you can choose from a bazillion nicknames!
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Sat, 15 Oct 2011 06:13:11 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=5230#comment-263564While Robin Williams might have named his daughter after the video game, the video game got it’s name from Zelda Fitzgerald. Just an interesting tidbit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda#Inspiration
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Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:03:08 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=5230#comment-197997It just occurred to me that I have spent so much time on Nameberry looking up my favorite names, that I have forgotten the meaning of mine!
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Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:36:57 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=5230#comment-191123My secret meaning is ‘name my mum loved when my older sister was born but dad didn’t like, but was ok 3 years later with me’.

My sister is Frances for my Great Grandma – which makes up for the fact she doesn’t like France!

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Wed, 04 May 2011 22:18:14 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=5230#comment-174809My name (Claire) means “clear” in french (but you won’t find that if you search “Claire” because YOU nameberry, messed up and said it means “light”, trust me I know I went to French school) which is a boring meaning, but whatever, the name’s alright.
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Mon, 02 May 2011 11:14:14 +0000http://nameberry.com/blog/?p=5230#comment-173831The Beckhams actually gave Brooklyn his name because Victoria was in Brooklyn when she found out she was preggers.
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